Critical Practice Belsey Catherine
Critical Practice Belsey Catherine What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? in the reader's? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's…
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Critical Practice Belsey Catherine
What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? in the reader's? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head?
If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? And what is the role of the text?
Catherine Belsey considers these and other questions concerning the relations between human beings and language, readers and texts, writing and cultural politics. Assuming no prior knowledge of poststructuralism, Critical Practice guides the reader confidently through the maze of contemporary theory. It simply and lucidly explains the views of key figures such as Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, and shows their theories at work in readings of familiar literary texts.Critical